Liquid armour 'can stop bullets'

[Adsos Letter]

SOURCE: By Victoria Gill
Science reporter, BBC News

A liquid armour has been shown to stop bullets in tests carried out by UK scientists at BAE systems in Bristol.

The researchers have combined this "shear-thickening" liquid with Kevlar to create a new bullet-proof material.

The company is keeping the chemical formula of the liquid a secret, but it works by absorbing the force of the bullet strike and responding to it by becoming much thicker and more sticky.

The BAE scientists describe it as "bullet-proof custard".


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10569761.stm

[Ian David]

1. You can also do this with it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2XQ97XHjVw

[Adsos Letter]

4. That is a GREAT video!

[derby378]

7. That is some wild, wacky stuff right there

Thanks for sharing! :hi:

[MilesColtrane]

2. Meh.

Wake me when they come up with a lime jello impervious to a bazooka round.

[struggle4progress]

8. This is a really good product idea

I had been worried I was the only one who got lime jello splattered on my dining room walls

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Igel]

3. Gotta love non-Newtonian fluids. n/t

[asdjrocky]

5. Or you could just not shoot them in the first place.

[GeorgeGist]

6. But can it stop ...

oil gushers? That would be useful.

[Javaman]

9. Mmmmm, bullet proof custard.nt

[Forkboy]

10. It's really baby crap, which we all know stops everything from approaching for 100 yards.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. LIQUIMET... IT IS REAL!!!!! I posited

this in a role playing game I wrote...

BAE can I get a cut? No, not really... but it does make you wonder who the fuck is buying those games and going... this is a grand idea!

Now to be honest, there is another version of this floating around using magnetics and liquid.

But these are the times I go... did I write an RPG or prophecy? Next I know we will have GKal Lances and MASERS, and I am not kidding.